Apollo's eye : a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the western imagination
"In Apollo's Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity." "Cosgrove's analysis traces a pattern of associations between global images and the formation of Western identities, paying tribute to the richly complex cosmographic tradition out of which today's geographical imagination has emerged."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2001
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©2001
globes (cartographic spheres)
xiii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780801864919, 9780801874444, 9780801875083, 0801864917, 0801874440, 0801875080
44162407
Contents: 1 Imperial and Poetic Globe 2 Classical Globe 3 Christian Globe 4 Oceanic Globe 5 Visionary Globe 6 Emblematic Globe and the Poetics of the World 7 Enlightened Globe 8 Modern Globe 9 Virtual Globe
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